Study period: December 2024 to October 2025
Deadline for applications: Friday 15th of November 2024
Please send your CV to laura.felisatti@agrinatura-eu.eu
BACKGROUND
Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D) is an EU-funded project implemented by Agrinatura, the European Alliance of European Universities and Research Centres specialised in agricultural research for development. The main activity of VCA4D is to perform value chain analyses according to the VCA4D Methodology (whose approach is summarised in this short video: EN).
The EU Delegation to Moldova has contacted VCA4D to perform analyses on three products: wheat, maize, and sunflower. To respond to this request, VCA4D proposes that:
The 3 national experts will be recruited possibly from public Universities and/or the research system and/or independent experts with a long-standing collaboration with these types of bodies with sound knowledge of the disciplines involved and a good understanding of VCs in the country.
One of the 3 experts will be identified as coordinator of the national part of the team.
These national experts will be selected firstly on the basis of their scientific disciplines (agro-economics, social sciences, environmental sciences or related disciplines) and their ability to easily integrate the VCA4D methodology and tools, and secondly on the basis of their knowledge of value chains and the wheat, maize and sunflower in particular.
As a general characteristic, relevant knowledge of national institutions (technical, economic, and political) and stakeholders (public and private) involved in the wheat, maize, and sunflower VCs is required.
PROFILES OF THE NATIONAL EXPERTS
TIME AND INPUT REQUIRED
The assignment is expected to start in December 2024 till October 2025.
The number of working days required for each national expert will be around 100: 20 days to contribute to the wheat value chain analysis; and 40 days for each value chain analysis of maize and sunflower.
A provision to cover per diem and local costs for field visits will be provided. The experts will be accompanied by VCA4D experienced experts and the VCA4D Project Management Unit (PMU) for quality support and coaching on the methods.
SEQUENCING OF THE ACTIVITIES AND ANALYSES
The first step will be to start the analysis of the wheat value chain in Moldova. The analysis will be carried out by three international experts (one economist, a social expert, and an environmental expert) with previous experience in the VCA4D methodology.
The three international experts will be accompanied and shadowed by the three national experts who will support in providing general information on the value chain, identifying key players and existing relevant information and data for the analyses; selecting the most relevant data from available sources, to clarify inconsistencies and to improve coherence between analyses; facilitate and complete the data collection, in agreement to the guidelines of the Team Leader.
Throughout the study, time will be devoted to sharing knowledge about the tools of the VCA4D methodology and their use.
The work of the national experts may take place before the missions (preparation), during the missions (support for their colleagues’ missions), between the missions (gathering additional information for the missions, supervising surveys, calculating indicators, and providing additional analysis, etc.), or even after the missions (providing additional information).
The team of national experts will take the opportunity during the field missions for the wheat value chain analysis to also gather information and data available on the sunflower and maize value chains.
Also, the VCA4D PMU and other experts will be mobilised to support the team of national experts in capacity strengthening, to become more proficient in the use of the methods mobilised in VCA4D and their application (also in terms of interdisciplinarity).
As soon as the input on the wheat value chain from the national experts is concluded (mainly after the field missions), the team will start working on the two value chain analyses on sunflower and maize, with the organization of field missions and data collection as relevant. The team will be supported by VCA4D throughout the performance of the assignment to ensure that the reports comply with the VCA4D standards.
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